Front Page Story: Wilkins applauds addition of Louisville to ACC

Board of Trustees Chairman David Wilkins said the ACC's addition of Louisville was decisive, and said the league is adding strong football and basketball programs. He also said he applauds the conference's efforts in suing Maryland over the $53 million buyout. Photo: Jamie Rhodes-US PRESSWIREFull Story »

Are you suggesting they sabatoge the ACC

What I am suggesting is

Posted: Nov 29, 2012 12:15 PM

That they are content to be stuck in a confernece that cannot complete financially, nor athletically, and as such will remain irrelevant on the national football stage. The care more about the academic side and apparently do not understand the monetary downfall of such short-sighted thinking. THEY approved the absurdly high buyout. THEY are pushing for sticking it to Maryland for actually having the balls to want to better their university, THEY are praising Swofford and the ACC for doing such a fine job with this league, THEY are saying Clemson is happy in the ACC and its current state.

PioneerG, you are spot on sir. The ACC is a "cancer" in the

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Posted: Nov 29, 2012 12:41 PM

Clemson football program. We are watching a slow death of Clemson football. I think that even if FSU decided to leave the ACC for the more lucrative Big 12 in order to be able to compete with the Florida Gator's coming bonanza payday (new SEC TV deals plus SEC Network), I think it's very likely we'd stick it out with the ACC, even if Virginia Tech and NC State left for the SEC. And I think that VT and NC State will be gone by this time next year. With the new SEC riches, they will be able to absorb the $50 million penalty. This Wilkens article is depressing.

Face it, we're not getting an invite to the SEC

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Posted: Nov 29, 2012 1:47 PM

Either bolt to the BIG 12 or help strengthen the conference you're in. Should they be sabatoging the ACC with a future plan of bolting to the BIG12?

What I am saying is that you and everyone else's criticisms of Barker being a part of bringing in ND and Louisville, and the $53mil buyout doesn't make sense. Other ACC schools may be able to go to the SEC, like VT, but we DO NOT. We have to keep the teams in we want, get rid of the ones we don't and bring in better teams. The ACC isn't in a great bargaining position for schools, so Louisville is a good get.

Why wouldn't you want them to collect it?***

Replacing UMD w/ UofL is an upgrade.

Posted: Nov 29, 2012 12:35 PM

Whether anyone likes anything ever done by the ACC before or not, this was a move that fell into their lap and they acted quick on it.

They replace a crappy broke UMD program with a solvent good UofL program. With ND being promised a spot(not that they'll ever take it), you know technically ND has 2 spots, one for them and who they want to bring with them if they have to join, the ACC was stuck at 14 with no away of adding another FB program. UMD bolting gave them that chance.

UofL on the schedule every year is a lot better than UMD.

Let's not forget UofL was also part of the BIG 12 rumors(that whole mythological eastern division) and they got em.

And yes holding UMD to their contract is the right thing to do. What is UMD gonna do ? They play this year and next year under that contract, are they gonna refuse the ACC checks ? Cash the checks and they don't have a leg to stand on in court.

Yeah, B1G are the losers in this one***

So does "available" = remaining Big East teams?

Posted: Nov 29, 2012 12:38 PM

I still wonder if there might have been a chance to snag Penn State. If our office was wise they'd have at least asked if there was interest in it. It really would have shown the world that the ACC is for real to trade MD for PSU with the BIG.